VIENA: A Multidisciplinary Platform for Education

This article is to present the Veículo Inteligente Elétrico de Navegaciio Autónoma (VIENA) project - (Intelli-gent Electric Vehicle with Autonomous Driving) - a project made by students, for students. The project scope is to be a multidisciplinary platform for the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) course at Técnico Lisboa to grasp important aspects and concepts that can only be obtained by a practical implementation. Since the objective of this project is to make a semi to a fully autonomous electric car, every aspect of the ECE course applies here: electrical circuitry development, sensor implementation, low and high levels of communication, low and high-level programming, power train design, including battery and electric motor system, and all the control aspects required to make all these parts function as one, as well as for the speed control and autonomous driving. The main goal is to show the work developed so far and how this project contributed to knowledge and curriculum of the students that worked in the project, voluntary, in their master's thesis, or through scholarships.